You must have attended high school when I did, in the 70's, or earlier. No way would any school these days allow such a creative endeavour, especially one that derives from weapons technology. Can you imagine the lawsuits if some kid was hurt by one of these inventions?
I haven't been asked for my personal info at the shack for some time now, but there's a computer store chain in Las Vegas that tried to. I told the clerk he didn't need my address and phone number, and he replied "Well what if there's a problem with the card?" and I said the little card authorizer gizmo will tell him if there is, and no other merchants ever ask me for that information. He disappeared into the back room for a moment, and returned with the news that his manager had approved the sale without collecting the personal info. I said fine, then he tried to make a lame joke, "You're not a criminal, are you?" and I replied, laughing, "No, I am not. Nor am I a customer of yours." And I put down the cable I was going to buy, and put my card back in my wallet.
"But I was just joking!" he said, as I headed for the door. "Yeah I know, but it wasn't funny."
I like to think I made an impression on the PFY running the checkout, but I doubt it.
Anyone really not believe that wasting my time in order to try and sell me stuff I don't want isn't immoral?
Well, after parsing this through my double-negative discombobulator, I can say that Yes, I Don't believe that wasting your time in order to try and sell you stuff you don't want is immoral.
From http://litigation.paetec.net/instructions.html :
Moreover, in informal communications, MonsterHut has advised our attorneys that, at this time, MonsterHut will be unable to prove on an individual basis that most of you solicited the e-mail because most of the complaints went through Spam-Cop, which masks the identity of the complainants,.
Yeah. See. I ended up blocking Spamcop complaints at my incoming relays, because they redact the address of the complainant. This makes it impossible for me to act on the complaint, or to remove the complainant from the mailing list in question. Spamcop is therefore, nothing more than a service to make people feel good, to get it off their chest, so to speak, and annoy the person who operates the network block from which the mailing originated (or the operator of any domain mentioned in the mailing).
Spamcop does little or nothing to actually get people off of mailing lists they don't want to be on. I see it as an automated revenge mechanism, whereby a person who feels they have been spammed, can launch a tit-for-tat barrage of useless mail at whoever Spamcop believes was the perp. I can do without that sort of thing, thanks.
Your first argument - that too many gTLDs make trademark enforcement impossible - simply does not wash. I can't set up a travel agency and call it American Express, the AXP lawyers will be all over me, whether or not I also have registered the domain americanexpress.travel or americanexpress.leisure, or americanexpress.co.uk. Hell, I could register the domain name american-express-travel.com, or americanexpresstravelcom.net, and still be found to infringe on the trademark. The availability, or lack thereof, of more TLDs to register under does not affect whether or not I have infringed, nor does it make it harder to enforce the relevant laws. Infringement is infringment, on- or off-line, with or without a trailing dot-and-letters.
You then said:
And there's even technical considerations with unlimited gTLD's that some (Auerbach) claim are virtually nonexistent, but that is all basically the equivalent of "talking out the arse."
Speaking out of the posterior is what you are doing, by making these baseless declaratory statements. I have yet to see anyone present a case for what these technical considerations are, and why they are a problem when there are too many TLDs. You can't just make noise about DNS stability, and expect people to buy it. I say there is no technical reason why any number of TLDs cannot be introduced tomorrow. You will need to to better than hand-waving to convince me otherwise.
Hey.. these are the same guys that judge the entire Internet based on Pets.com and Webvan.com...
No they're not. These are the guys who happily took orders - without prejudice - and made their living off the spread while the rest of us ran Pets.com, Webvan, Yahoo and all the rest into the stratosphere, and then back into the ground. Being a trader on one of the exchanges is a sure-fire way to make money no matter what direction the market goes.
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Did I miss anything, or can a DSL maven see a problem with my plans?
I'm not a maven, but I don't see the point of four segments. You seem to assume the dry copper pairs run directly between each bridging station, so the 10-mile gap to the CO from Stixville is covered in four 2.5 mile segments. But the copper pairs don't run that way. They wire each station back to the central office, 10 miles away.
I'm not going to be rich because of it, but for at least one friend of mine's band (The Brobdingnagian Bards: http://mp3.com/thebards), it's a really good step on the way to being able to make music for a living.
I suggest another good step should be getting rid of the brobdingnagian appellation they have affixed to themselves. No one uses that word anymore, or even knows what it means (or cares) least of all, their potential fan base.
I suggest the band call themselves The Fucking Huge Fuckers instead. Now THAT will sell albums!
Funny thing is, Mary Meeker is guilty of all the things charged in the complaint. Even funnier, the dopes who bought AMZN and EBAY shouldn't get one red cent for the money they lost because they believed her.;)
The next step is to go beyond homework, word processing and school administration into the nature of open source itself -- by enabling students and teachers to do their own development.
At the Beacon School, an alternative public high school in New York City, students get their own shell account, and are offered a class in programming languages Java, PHP and SQL.
"All of our introductory programming classes start out with an introduction to Linux," says Chris Lehmann, Beacon's technology coordinator. "Linux is decidedly not that interesting or difficult. It's learning to program that's interesting," he said.
What an incredibily clued-in teacher this Mr. Lehmann is. I wonder how long he'll last before someone realizes how subversive the plain truth concerning the utility of computers really is, and shitcans him. "[S]tudents and teachers [doing] their own development." Hah! That'll be the day. But I really don't see how this contributes to ingraining desirable consumer behaviors into the children, unless he talks up the self-esteem-building aspects. Happy children want their parents to buy things, you know.
Parts of speech and certain computer and gadget connectors - these have genders.
Humans, animals, flowers - we organisms have sexes.
Only members of sexually repressed societies are ashamed to use the word "sex" to refer to the maleness or femaleness of people. "Gender" in this context is a wholly American politically-correct corruption of the language.
More than 70 planetary systems have been found around stars other than the sun, including three with multiple planets, but most have orbits that are sharply elliptical.
Soon, it is widely believed, the Internet will become a universal library/movie theater/voting booth/shopping mall/newspaper/museum/concert hall...
I don't know that this will happen, and certainly I don't believe it will happen on the scale he proposes. I am certain that the people who believe that it will, are just as dogmatic and uncritical of this prediction as the writer of the TR article believes the "net-libertarians" are about the inevitablity of free information flow. The former belief is speculation, wishful thinking. The latter belief is based on the cold hard facts of the protocols and signalling methods used on the Internet, and 25 years of operating experience backing up the basic soundness of the design. The only way to censor communications on the Internet is to dismantle it.
He goes on to talk about comments by the creator of BearShare:
By insisting that digital technology is ineluctably beyond the reach of authority, Falco and others like him are inadvertently making it far more likely that the rules of operation of the worldwide intellectual commons that is the Internet will be established not through the messy but open processes of democracy but by private negotiations among large corporations.
This statement is so naive, it makes the rest of the article that descends from this notion nearly irrelevant. We've already seen how transparent the "open process of democracy" is. ICANN is the poster child for this trend. Everyone who cares about these issues already knows the Corps want to own the whole thing. This writer seems to have just discovered that an awful lot of ugliness happens because of decisions made in smoke-filled boardrooms. Gilmore, Falco, EMS and all the rest have known this for a very long time, indeed, knowning this has been going on for the entire history of the Internet is evidence that the "information wants to be free" dogma is more than a leap of faith.
I have yet to see any lasting commercial success for the "universal library/movie theater/voting booth/shopping mall/newspaper/museum/concert hall" crowd. Maybe it will happen. Maybe we'll all be flying around Blade Runner-style in hovercars, too.
Right. What is much more likely, in my view, is that the dream (nightmare?) of the "universal library/movie theater/voting booth/shopping mall/newspaper/museum/concert hall" Internet, is overblown and unrealistic, given the facts about the way the Internet operates. It's much more likely that the universal-whatever network will be a private corporate owned and operated network, not the Internet as we know it, which will continue to exist in parallel.
...the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a 1998 law that some legal experts say extends rights to consumers even as it effectively prevents them from exercising those rights.
Hello? Those rights already existed - it's called the 1st Amendment. The DMCA even has language expressly affirming those rights to fair use. Here is an article that is critical of the DMCA, yet is still full of pro-media-conglomerate bias! How can we win this when even our "friends" are getting it wrong?
According to the story at CBS Marketwatch, only one count of fraud was overturned, the one relating to DDR. The fraud conviction still stands with regards to SDRAM.
On Thursday, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia cleared Rambus of fraud charges related to DDR. However, it maintained that Rambus had committed fraud with respect to SDRAM, Wiseman said.
"The court affirmed Infineon's broad theory, and found that Rambus did intentionally defraud JEDEC in respect to SDRAM standardization," said attorney John Desmarais of Kirkland & Ellis, the New York law firm representing Infineon.
Rambus plans to file an appeal on the SDRAM decision in the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
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How do you know the worm will follow the redirect to the 404 document? You are aware how ErrorDocument works when it points to an external URL, right?
Stenography is the shorthand used to take dictation when only pen and paper is at hand.
Steganography is information-hiding.
Go look it up on Google.
Today is the anniversary of the Camp David Accords.
You must have attended high school when I did, in the 70's, or earlier. No way would any school these days allow such a creative endeavour, especially one that derives from weapons technology. Can you imagine the lawsuits if some kid was hurt by one of these inventions?
Ah, the good old days...
i won't take an opportunity in music although it's not likely i'd get one anyway since i don't look like britney spears.
Britney is not a musician, she is a very good looking chamber maid for the RIAA.
I haven't been asked for my personal info at the shack for some time now, but there's a computer store chain in Las Vegas that tried to. I told the clerk he didn't need my address and phone number, and he replied "Well what if there's a problem with the card?" and I said the little card authorizer gizmo will tell him if there is, and no other merchants ever ask me for that information. He disappeared into the back room for a moment, and returned with the news that his manager had approved the sale without collecting the personal info. I said fine, then he tried to make a lame joke, "You're not a criminal, are you?" and I replied, laughing, "No, I am not. Nor am I a customer of yours." And I put down the cable I was going to buy, and put my card back in my wallet.
"But I was just joking!" he said, as I headed for the door. "Yeah I know, but it wasn't funny."
I like to think I made an impression on the PFY running the checkout, but I doubt it.
Anyone really not believe that wasting my time in order to try and sell me stuff I don't want isn't immoral?
Well, after parsing this through my double-negative discombobulator, I can say that Yes, I Don't believe that wasting your time in order to try and sell you stuff you don't want is immoral.
Yeah, DJ Bernstein, author of qmail and djbdns, has put in a lot of thought into overhauling SMTP. Check it out.
From http://litigation.paetec.net/instructions.html :
Moreover, in informal communications, MonsterHut has advised our attorneys that, at this time, MonsterHut will be unable to prove on an individual basis that most of you solicited the e-mail because most of the complaints went through Spam-Cop, which masks the identity of the complainants,.
Yeah. See. I ended up blocking Spamcop complaints at my incoming relays, because they redact the address of the complainant. This makes it impossible for me to act on the complaint, or to remove the complainant from the mailing list in question. Spamcop is therefore, nothing more than a service to make people feel good, to get it off their chest, so to speak, and annoy the person who operates the network block from which the mailing originated (or the operator of any domain mentioned in the mailing).
Spamcop does little or nothing to actually get people off of mailing lists they don't want to be on. I see it as an automated revenge mechanism, whereby a person who feels they have been spammed, can launch a tit-for-tat barrage of useless mail at whoever Spamcop believes was the perp. I can do without that sort of thing, thanks.
Isn't the assignment/registration of domain names ICANN's sole responsibility?
No, it is not. Go read their charter. I am reasonably sure you know where to find it.
Your first argument - that too many gTLDs make trademark enforcement impossible - simply does not wash. I can't set up a travel agency and call it American Express, the AXP lawyers will be all over me, whether or not I also have registered the domain americanexpress.travel or americanexpress.leisure, or americanexpress.co.uk. Hell, I could register the domain name american-express-travel.com, or americanexpresstravelcom.net, and still be found to infringe on the trademark. The availability, or lack thereof, of more TLDs to register under does not affect whether or not I have infringed, nor does it make it harder to enforce the relevant laws. Infringement is infringment, on- or off-line, with or without a trailing dot-and-letters.
You then said:
And there's even technical considerations with unlimited gTLD's that some (Auerbach) claim are virtually nonexistent, but that is all basically the equivalent of "talking out the arse."
Speaking out of the posterior is what you are doing, by making these baseless declaratory statements. I have yet to see anyone present a case for what these technical considerations are, and why they are a problem when there are too many TLDs. You can't just make noise about DNS stability, and expect people to buy it. I say there is no technical reason why any number of TLDs cannot be introduced tomorrow. You will need to to better than hand-waving to convince me otherwise.
Why don't you just hire the kid down the street to do it for ten bucks?
Another success story for Hooked On Phonics (emphasis mine).
Why Vietnam? I don't get the analogy. Perhaps you meant Waterloo?
No they're not. These are the guys who happily took orders - without prejudice - and made their living off the spread while the rest of us ran Pets.com, Webvan, Yahoo and all the rest into the stratosphere, and then back into the ground. Being a trader on one of the exchanges is a sure-fire way to make money no matter what direction the market goes.
...for the funny part, that is.
I'm not a maven, but I don't see the point of four segments. You seem to assume the dry copper pairs run directly between each bridging station, so the 10-mile gap to the CO from Stixville is covered in four 2.5 mile segments. But the copper pairs don't run that way. They wire each station back to the central office, 10 miles away.
I suggest another good step should be getting rid of the brobdingnagian appellation they have affixed to themselves. No one uses that word anymore, or even knows what it means (or cares) least of all, their potential fan base.
I suggest the band call themselves The Fucking Huge Fuckers instead. Now THAT will sell albums!
Funny thing is, Mary Meeker is guilty of all the things charged in the complaint. Even funnier, the dopes who bought AMZN and EBAY shouldn't get one red cent for the money they lost because they believed her. ;)
What an incredibily clued-in teacher this Mr. Lehmann is. I wonder how long he'll last before someone realizes how subversive the plain truth concerning the utility of computers really is, and shitcans him. "[S]tudents and teachers [doing] their own development." Hah! That'll be the day. But I really don't see how this contributes to ingraining desirable consumer behaviors into the children, unless he talks up the self-esteem-building aspects. Happy children want their parents to buy things, you know.
He hasn't a prayer.
Humans, animals, flowers - we organisms have sexes.
Only members of sexually repressed societies are ashamed to use the word "sex" to refer to the maleness or femaleness of people. "Gender" in this context is a wholly American politically-correct corruption of the language.
He goes on to talk about comments by the creator of BearShare:
This statement is so naive, it makes the rest of the article that descends from this notion nearly irrelevant. We've already seen how transparent the "open process of democracy" is. ICANN is the poster child for this trend. Everyone who cares about these issues already knows the Corps want to own the whole thing. This writer seems to have just discovered that an awful lot of ugliness happens because of decisions made in smoke-filled boardrooms. Gilmore, Falco, EMS and all the rest have known this for a very long time, indeed, knowning this has been going on for the entire history of the Internet is evidence that the "information wants to be free" dogma is more than a leap of faith.I have yet to see any lasting commercial success for the "universal library/movie theater/voting booth/shopping mall/newspaper/museum/concert hall" crowd. Maybe it will happen. Maybe we'll all be flying around Blade Runner-style in hovercars, too.
Right. What is much more likely, in my view, is that the dream (nightmare?) of the "universal library/movie theater/voting booth/shopping mall/newspaper/museum/concert hall" Internet, is overblown and unrealistic, given the facts about the way the Internet operates. It's much more likely that the universal-whatever network will be a private corporate owned and operated network, not the Internet as we know it, which will continue to exist in parallel.
Hello? Those rights already existed - it's called the 1st Amendment. The DMCA even has language expressly affirming those rights to fair use. Here is an article that is critical of the DMCA, yet is still full of pro-media-conglomerate bias! How can we win this when even our "friends" are getting it wrong?